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It is easy to gather your family and to be an environmentally-friendly. You will need the cooperation of everyone in your household to fulfill those earth-friendly practices. Parents often feel the challenge of doing the 3Rs which are reduced, reuse, and recycle, and the other primary environmental responsibilities a person must possess.

The vertical garden is something that has yet to hit the industry but yes, it is getting there. Across the globe, big companies have gotten interested in this technology and are continuously planning to create these gardens in urban areas where trees are rare and air pollution is widespread.

Vertical gardens are a unique strategy that allows people to grow plants in a suspended or vertical panel with the use of hydroponics. They can be held to the walls or can be self-supported. They may be called living walls or moss walls. They can also be created to be as high as over 50 feet, or as small as a photo frame.

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Just recently, China displayed its first-ever vertical garden that allows the production of 60 kilograms of oxygen daily. Also, in India, its first vertical garden grows about 3500 plants.

How Do They Work?

Vertical gardens have a skeletal framework that is created like the real walls in our homes or office buildings. Some systems are built with hidden pipes that provide a method for self-watering to keep the plants wet and healthy. Other systems, however, don’t provide these pipes and require manual watering.

Since this technology is fairly new, the lifespan of vertical gardens are yet to be determined, although the walls and the panels are expected to last for about 25 years.

What Are The Benefits Of A Vertical Garden?

Having green walls in your home or office is definitely a beauty, but aside from cosmetic reasons, there are more amazing benefits of this wonderful innovation.

It improves the quality of air. These vertical gardens are a natural air filter and are very useful especially for condominium residents who don’t have enough space to build a normal garden. It helps create a cleaner and greener environment while promoting good health and productivity. In the offices where most air particles contain carbon monoxide and other harmful elements, the vertical greens help break these harmful elements and replace them with clean air.

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It helps reduce noise. This benefit is not as common as reducing air pollution, but it has been proven that vegetation can effectively reduce high-frequency sound to a minimum. Therefore, with the greens attached to the walls, which also help insulate sound, the vertical garden is an efficient method of pacifying noise from the streets and other neighboring buildings.

It saves money and energy. The structure of the vertical garden is built in such a way that it works through a process known as evapotranspiration, where it is able to decrease the temperature during the summer and produce heat during the winter months. For this reason, less money and energy are required to stay in a comfortable and temperature-controlled home or office.

It allows for a lesser dependency on land or property. Because the plants grow vertically and the garden relies on frames and support systems that are positioned upward, there is no need for homeowners to buy or lease more property, saving money and space.

Vertical gardens are suitable for new or renovated buildings, from just cozy apartments to the huge commercial spaces. They can be built inside or outside the buildings. They are versatile, cost-efficient, and something to be considered at this day and age.

Are you aware that air pollution is not just detrimental to your physical health but to your mental health as well? Some study conducted shows that being exposed to high levels of air pollution can cause you to also suffer from psychological distress.

Maybe you have heard campaigns on living zero waste lifestyle. First time hearing and reading about it is overwhelming. I don’t think I can follow on that. I find it near to impossible to have zero waste in the world we are living in.

Are you wondering why our weather patterns seem to go crazy? The weather has gone nuts like us. When it’s hot, we complain and ask for rain. When it rains, we complain and wish for warmer weather. We don’t seem to be satisfied. That could be the reason why the heavens got mad.

Urbanization has been beneficial to our social and economic growth. We are so focused on material well-being, forgetting its effect on the environment. Studies even confirmed that our daily activities contributed to about 78% of carbon emission in the cities, never realizing we could later suffer the consequences of environmental problems.

Our earth’s atmosphere has changed vastly. Presence of invisible pollutants in the air we breathe has dangerously affected public health. A bunch of people has died from respiratory and related diseases. Many others suffer all their lives.